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From: MDBG CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary 漢英字典

 明修棧道，暗渡陳倉 [ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄡ ㄓㄢˋ ㄉㄠˋ , ㄢˋ ㄉㄨˋ ㄔㄣˊ ㄘㄤ; ming2 xiu1 zhan4 dao4 , an4 du4 chen2 cang1]
 lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei river 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦 in 206 BC against Xiangyu 項羽 of Chu); fig. feign one thing while doing another
 to cheat under cover of a diversion
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